Car photo created by serhii_bobyk – www.freepik.com Mean time to repair (MTTR) is the average of, downtimes of a particular machine, for a particular time period. In other words, it is the average of times required to recover from its failures, for a particular time period. MTTR and MTBF are closely related. You may read […]
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Car photo created by prostooleh – www.freepik.com Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is the average of the run times of a machine, between two failures, for a particular time period. Time period can be one week, one month, one year etc… How to Calculate Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) MTBF is calculated by following formula,
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Let’s discuss what is effectiveness through a simple example. There was an operator and he has given a task of producing 50 products in two hours. And he achieved the target in the given time. In this case we can say that the operator was effective. Two important words related to Effectiveness Task and time
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This article explains what is rating and how to do rating in time and motion study. This article is related to the article on Direct stopwatch time study, which explains about how to do time study. Ok let’s dive into our subject. What is rating Rating is the one of the steps conducted during time
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In this article we will learn about ‘How to calculate manpower for preventive maintenance with varying checklist frequency’. Here I will explain the situation. We have a lot of different types of machines in which preventive maintenance to be done. Each type of machines have different type of activities or checklists and its frequency also
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Hi, I am writing this article since I got a request to write an article on ‘How to calculate manpower for Preventive Maintenance’ on request an article page. Ok lets start… Following steps can be followed for calculating manpower for preventive maintenance(pm) team. Step 1 : Clearly define what all are the activities to be
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This post contains instructions for using our online OEE calculator. For knowing about OEE please read our article on Overall Equipment Effectiveness. Instructions for using OEE calculator If you just want to calculate OEE, follow the instructions from 4 to 11 If you want to calculate OEE and print the report follow instructions from 3
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We have prepared an online time study sheet, for conducting time study easily, accurately, quickly and by anybody. The following instructions are for using time study sheet published in this website. Before starting time study we recommend you to read and study the article on Direct stopwatch time study Click here for Time Study Sheet
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A flowing river will be pure than stagnant water, since pure water will be coming into it from the source and contaminated water is replaced with pure water in it. Just reminded the importance of flow. With this example lets move to flow in a manufacturing industry. Let’s start … What is flow Flow is
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Really is there any difference between productivity and efficiency ?, What is productivity?, What is efficiency?, Formula connecting productivity and efficiency, Relationship between productivity and efficiency, Example demonstrating the relation between productivity and efficiency, etc. We will discuss all here in detail. Before we move in to our subject, we need to know more about
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